The Tunnel

Nov 8, 1966

1h 38m

★ 4.5

Overview

Romania, 1944. Six intelligence agents, Russians and Romanians, at the cost of their own lives, prevented the Nazis from destroying a strategically important object — a tunnel on the path of the Soviet Army.

Genres

War

Production Companies

Studioul Cinematografic București

Mosfilm

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Cast

Denisov

Aleksei Loktev

Petrescu

Ion Dichiseanu

Natasha

Valentina Malyavina

Yuliya

Margareta Pâslaru

Grisha

Lev Prygunov

Dutsu

Florin Piersic

Sergei

Viktor Filippov

Molchun

Leonid Zverintsev

Otto von Keller

Emmerich Schäffer

waiter

Ștefan Bănică

Dronov

Gennadiy Yukhtin

officer

Ion Anghel

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